TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS: LIST OF MEMBERS: FIRST SESSION: ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE.
Senators.
Maine.—George Evans, John Fairfield.
New Hampshire.—Benjamin W. Jenness, Charles G. Atherton.
Vermont.—William Upham, Samuel S. Phelps.
Massachusetts.—Daniel Webster, John Davis.
Rhode Island.—James F. Simmons, Albert C. Green.
Connecticut.—John M. Niles, Jabez W. Huntington.
New York.—John A. Dix, Daniel S. Dickinson.
New Jersey.—Jacob W. Miller, John L. Dayton.
Pennsylvania.—Simon Cameron, Daniel Sturgeon.
Delaware.—Thomas Clayton, John M. Clayton.
Maryland.—James A. Pearce, Reverdy Johnson.
Virginia.—William S. Archer, Isaac S. Pennybacker.
North Carolina.—Willie P. Mangum, William H. Haywood, jr.
South Carolina.—John C. Calhoun, George McDuffie.
Georgia.—John McP. Berrien, Walter T. Colquitt.
Alabama.—Dixon H. Lewis, Arthur P. Bagby.
Mississippi.—Joseph W. Chalmers, Jesse Speight.
Louisiana.—Alexander Barrow, Henry Johnson.
Tennessee.—Spencer Jarnagin, Hopkins L. Turney.
Kentucky.—James T. Morehead, John J. Crittenden.
Ohio.—William Allen, Thomas Corwin.
Indiana.—Ed. A. Hannegan, Jesse D. Bright.
Illinois.—James Semple, Sidney Breese.
Missouri.—David R. Atchison, Thomas H. Benton.
Arkansas.—Chester Ashley, Ambrose H. Sevier.
Michigan.—William Woodbridge, Lewis Cass.
Florida.—David Levy, James D. Westcott.
In this list will be seen the names of several new senators, not members of the body before, and whose senatorial exertions soon made them eminent;—Dix and Dickinson of New York, Reverdy Johnson of Maryland, Jesse D. Bright of Indiana, Lewis Cass of Michigan; and to these were soon to be added two others from the newly incorporated State of Texas, Messrs. General Sam Houston and Thomas F. Rusk, Esq., and of whom, and their State, it may be said they present a remarkable instance of mutual confidence and concord, neither having been changed to this day (1856).
House of Representatives.
Maine.—John F. Scammon, Robert P. Dunlap, Luther Severance, John D. McCrate, Cullen Sawtelle, Hannibal Hamlin, Hezekiah Williams.
New Hampshire.—Moses Norris, jr., Mace Moulton, James H. Johnson.
Vermont.—Solomon Foot, Jacob Collamer, George P. Marsh, Paul Dillingham, jr.
Massachusetts.—Robert C. Winthrop, Daniel P. King, Amos Abbot, Benjamin Thompson, Charles Hudson, George Ashmun, Julius Rockwell, John Quincy Adams, Joseph Grinnell.
Rhode Island.—Henry Y. Cranston, Lemuel H. Arnold.
Connecticut.—James Dixon, Samuel D. Hubbard, John A. Rockwell, Truman Smith.
New York.—John W. Lawrence, Henry I. Seaman, William S. Miller, William B. Maclay, Thomas M. Woodruff, William W. Campbell, Joseph H. Anderson, William W. Woodworth, Archibald C. Niven, Samuel Gordon, John F. Collin, Richard P. Herrick, Bradford R. Wood, Erastus D. Culver, Joseph Russell, Hugh White, Charles S. Benton, Preston King, Orville Hungerford, Timothy Jenkins, Charles Goodyear, Stephen Strong, William J. Hough, Horace Wheaton, George Rathbun, Samuel S. Ellsworth, John De Mott, Elias B. Holmes, Charles H. Carcoll, Martin Grover, Abner Lewis, William A. Mosely, Albert Smith, Washington Hunt.
New Jersey.—James G. Hampton, George Sykes, John Runk, John Edsall, William Wright.
Pennsylvania.—Lewis C. Levin, Joseph R. Ingersoll, John H. Campbell, Charles J. Ingersoll, Jacob S. Yost, Jacob Erdman, Abraham R. McIlvaine, John Strohm, John Ritter, Richard Brodhead, jr., Owen D. Leib, David Wilmot, James Pollock, Alexander Ramsay, Moses McLean, James Black, James Blanchard, Andrew Stewart, Henry D. Foster, John H. Ewing, Cornelius Darragh, William S. Garvin, James Thompson, Joseph Buffington.
Delaware.—John W. Houston.
Maryland.—John G. Chapman, Thomas Perry, Thomas W. Ligon, William F. Giles, Albert Constable, Edward Long.
Virginia.—Archibald Atkinson, George C. Dromgoole, William M. Treadway, Edward W. Hubard, Shelton F. Leake, James A. Seddon, Thomas H. Bayly, Robert M. T. Hunter, John S. Pendleton, Henry Redinger, William Taylor, Augustus A. Chapman, George W. Hopkins, Joseph Johnson, William G. Brown.
North Carolina.—James Graham, Daniel M. Barringer, David S. Reid, Alfred Dockery, James C. Dobbin, James J. McKay, John R. J. Daniels, Henry S. Clarke, Asa Biggs.
South Carolina.—James A. Black, Richard F. Simpson, Joseph A. Woodward, A. D. Sims, Armistead Burt, Isaac E. Holmes, R. Barnwell Rhett.
Georgia.—Thomas Butler King, Seaborn Jones, Hugh A. Haralson, John H. Lumpkin, Howell Cobb, Alex. H. Stephens, Robt. Toombs.
Alabama.—Samuel D. Dargin, Henry W. Hilliard, William L. Yancey, Winter W. Payne, George S. Houston, Reuben Chapman, Felix G. McConnell.
Mississippi.—Jacob Thompson, Stephen Adams, Robert N. Roberts, Jefferson Davis.
Louisiana.—John Slidell, Bannon G. Thibodeaux, J. H. Harmonson, Isaac E. Morse.
Ohio.—James J. Faran, F. A. Cunningham, Robert C. Schenck, Joseph Vance, William Sawyer, Henry St. John, Joseph J. McDowell, Allen G. Thurman, Augustus L. Perrill, Columbus Delano, Jacob Brinkerhoff, Samuel F. Vinton, Isaac Parish, Alexander Harper, Joseph Morris, John D. Cummins, George Fries, D. A. Starkweather, Daniel R. Tilden, Joshua R. Giddings, Joseph M. Root.
Kentucky.—Linn Boyd, John H. McHenry, Henry Grider, Joshua F. Bell, Bryan R. Young, John P. Martin, William P. Thomasson, Garrett Davis, Andrew Trumbo, John W. Tibbatts.
Tennessee.—Andrew Johnson, William M. Cocke, John Crozier, Alvan Cullom, George W. Jones, Barclay Martin, Meridith, P. Gentry, Lorenzo B. Chase, Frederick P. Stanton, Milton Brown.
Indiana.—Robert Dale Owen, Thomas J. Henley, Thomas Smith, Caleb B. Smith, William W. Wick, John W. Davis, Edward W. McGaughey, John Petit, Charles W. Cathcart, Andrew Kennedy.
Illinois.—Robert Smith, John A. McClernand, Orlando B. Ficklin, John Wentworth, Stephen A. Douglass, Joseph P. Hoge, Edward D. Baker.
Missouri.—James B. Bowlin, James H. Relf, Sterling Price, John S. Phelps, Leonard H. Simms.
Arkansas.—Archibald Yell.
Michigan.—Robert McClelland, John S. Chapman, James B. Hunt.
The delegates from territories were:
Florida.—Edward C. Cabell.
Iowa.—Augustus C. Dodge.
Wisconsin.—Morgan L. Martin.
The election of Speaker was readily effected, there being a large majority on the democratic side. Mr. John W. Davis, of Indiana, being presented as the democratic candidate, received 120 votes; Mr. Samuel F. Vinton, of Ohio, received the whig vote, 72. Mr. Benjamin B. French, of New Hampshire, was appointed clerk (without the formality of an election), by a resolve of the House, adopted by a general vote. He was of course democratic. The House being organized, a motion was made by Mr. Hamlin, of Maine, to except the hour rule (as it was called) from the rules to be adopted for the government of the House—which was lost, 62 to 143.